Anyone ever have problems being blocked at times from Google?

And, I mean while NEVER violating there AUP.

[rfgdxm1]

I seem to be getting blocked at times from accessing Google, which is annoying. Definitely it seems on these occasions that Google gets my page request, then decides it doesn't like me and sends nothing. Please note I have NOT been using WPG or any other other automated checking software. I don't even have such on this box, period. I'm thinking that what is happening has to do with my setting the home page of my browser to Google, and I usually after I boot open 5 instances of IE, and then use them while browsing to go to different sites. And, also just using Google a lot. I have this feeling that the software Google uses to check for use of WPG and such is a bit buggy, and occasionally my *manual* use of Google, which the AUP allows, confuses their filters and think I'm doing automated checking.

If you are reading Googleguy, I'd recommend that you bring this up to whoever is in charge of this at Google to check and see if Google can replicate such happening with such manual use. Again I repeat I have not been doing anything naughty Google says not to. Looks to me like a Google bug.

[ciml]

I'm surprised that five hits in quick succession is enough, especially as the "Cache-control: private" header that Google sends for their home page doesn't exactly encourage us all to be bandwidth friendly:)

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And welcome to the 1K club RFG!

[edited by: ciml at 6:42 pm (utc) on Jan. 2, 2003]

[jimbeetle]

Wow! I kind of find it difficult to believe -- no matter how hard we hit Google with manual queries -- that we would trip its automatic query filter.

I use Google a lot! during the day for content research, personal research, web site research, etc, and my flying fingers have never tripped anything.

Seems like if Google was going to block someone it would be an actual block and not just intermittent interuptions. Could it be connections glitches? Does a fast refresh work?

How the heck fast to you type anyway?

Jim

[GoogleGuy]

Do you get specific message? Blank page? Time-out? What are the symptoms you see?

[rfgdxm1]

It may be the five hits, and combined by the fact I do a lot of manual searches with Google. There is a reason why Google is my home page? This time what might have triggered it was also doing *manual* dance checks on key SERPs for me. Google sees a lot of manual activity from me, and confuses it with automated software. You gotta admit the someone like me, while I am not violating the AUP, isn't exactly the average Google user. ;) Looks like Google has set the filters to low, and are catching rapid, manual hits to their site and thinks they are a bot. If you think about it, basically I have been doing what a bot does, just at a slower frequency than a bot would be expected to. Google is just confusing what I do with human fingers, which the AUP allows, with being a bot that they don't.

[rfgdxm1]

Blank page, GG. Just a bunch of gray. I just clicked "home" on my browser a few seconds ago, which is set to [google.ca...] and got that blank page. Since if I set my home page to anything other than Google it works, and I can't replicate this with any other site, doesn't look to me like it is a problem with my software.

[rmjvol]

I've seen similar blank pages from the dance checker tools after several (like 10 or 15) queries. I've assumed it was related to some WPG type filter.

GG, does manual use of those dance checker tools bother you guys? I've kinda figured they'd be easy for you to shut down if they did, so I've been assuming it's ok to use them infrequently.

rmjvol